CONCEPT : Blog entry 4
I felt that my previous attempt at drawing the starling murmuration worked quite well, so after watching some clips I decided to do a couple more. These are really time consuming, but look really effective. I think that these would be really good on a larger scale (say a large wall in a gallery space). Although despite this, I'm not sure that there is a 'project' in this..I may have to think about it more.
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| Sketchbook experimentation - Starlings Murmuratation |
I also had the idea of using poetry to create the shapes the starlings created. I tried to do this in illustrator first...but I am still working out illustrator and it did not go well. So instead I did it by hand. The poem that I used is Starlings in Winter by Mary Oliver (Oliver, 2014)
Although I think this does work, I think that the images of the murmuration that don't use text are more effective, but again; I'm not sure how this would develop into a project. Really it was just an idea that I felt I had to get off my chest.
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| Sketchbook experimentaion - Starlings in winter Murmuration |
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| Sketchbook experimentation - detail |
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| Sketchbook experimentation - detail |
Have also been looking at concrete poetry and created a board on Pintrest, although most of it seems to be by Sam Winston.
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| Sam Winston |
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| Sam Winston |
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| Sam Winston |
(Vidani, 2014)
Although I like the idea of concrete poetry, and I really enjoyed working with typography in my previous project, I'm not sure if I want to continue with it..although I could probably draw a project out of that, but I'm not sure how it would fit with any of the topics that I am wanting to work around.
Oliver, M. (2014). Starlings in Winter | Best Poems. [online] Best-poems.net. Available at: http://www.best-poems.net/mary_oliver/poem-13085.html [Accessed 11 Jun. 2014].
Vidani, P. (2014). [online] Available at: http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/31401475766/various-works-by-the-artist-typographer-sam [Accessed 11 Jun. 2014].
